The word is derived from two Noongar words: kala meaning 'home' and munda meaning 'forest' - therefore, 'A home in the forest'.

Kaleen

The name means ‘water’ in the language of the Wiradhuri Aboriginal tribe of the Central West of New South Wales

Kalgoorlie

Derived from the Wangai word Karlkurla, meaning 'place of the silky pears'.

Kambah

The name derives from Ngambri, the name of the clan that originally lived in the area before European occupation.

Karrabin

From the Bundjalung Aboriginal language meaning 'red gum.'

Karratha

In the local Aboriginal language means 'good country' or 'soft earth'.

Karuah

It is thought that the name means 'native plum tree'.

Kirrawee

An Aboriginal word meaning 'lengthy'.

Koo Wee Rup

It is from the language of the Bunurong Aboriginal people and believed to mean 'plenty of blackfish' or 'blackfish swimming'.

Koorda

From a list of words obtained from a Noongar Aboriginal, the meaning being given as a 'married person'.

Kowanyama

Kowanyama means 'The place of many waters.'

Kununurra

In the Miriwoong language means "Big Waters" or "Big River'.

Kyancutta

Thought to be derived from the Aboriginal 'kanjakatari'; kanja - 'stone' and katari - 'surface water', inferring water in rocks, or from a nearby hill 'Kutta kutta' - the local Aboriginal name for the 'night hawk'.

Kyogle

An Aboriginal Australian word meaning 'plains turkey's (bustard) egg', a reference to the Scrub Turkey which is indigenous to the region.

Kurri Kurri

Comes from the local Awabakal language where it has a meaning similar to 'the beginning' or 'the first'.

Larrakeyah

Named after the indigenous language group that have occupied the area since before European settlement, theLarrakia.

Manangatang

From an Aboriginal term - manang meaning 'land' and kaaiti meaning 'water'.

Mandurah

The Noongar (or Bibbulmun) people, of the southwest of Western Australia, named the area Mandjar 'meeting place'.

Maningrida

The name Maningrida is an Anglicised version of the Kunibídjiname Manayingkarírra, which comes from the phrase Mane djang karirra, meaning 'the place where the Dreaming changed shape'.

Manjimup

From the Noongar Aboriginal words 'Manjin' - a broad-leafed edible reed, and up - 'meeting place.

Maroochydore

From the Aboriginal indigenous Yuggera language word Muru-kutchi, meaning 'red-bill': the name of the black swan, commonly seen in the area.

Mareeba

In the language of the Muluridji people, Mareeba means 'meeting of the waters'.

From a Gumbaynggirr word, ngambugka; meaning 'winding or crooked river', or 'entrance to the waters'.

Nana Glen

Derived from the 'Two-Tailed Lizard' - Nana is an aboriginal name meaning 'Two'.

Nannup

Of Noongar Aboriginal origin, meaning either 'stopping place' or 'place of parrots'.

Narrogin

The meaning of the name is uncertain and could be 'bat camp', 'plenty of everything' or "place of water'.

Nerrigundah

The place name is derived from an aboriginal word for 'camp where edible berries grow'.

Nowra

Pronounced Nowa Nowa by the Aborigines - is an Aboriginal word for 'black cockatoo'.

Ongerup

Means 'Place of the male kangaroo' in the local Noongar language.

Ourimbah

From the Aboriginal word "Oorin" meaning "Belt of manhood" in which a stone axe was carried on hunting expeditions, and "Oorinbah" which is the bora ring or ceremonial ground in which the initiation ceremony of conferring the 'belt of manhood' was carried out.

Panania

Is an Aboriginal word meaning 'sun rising in the east and shining on the hills'.

Parramatta

The Darug people called the area Baramada or Burramatta which means 'head of waters', 'the place where the eels lie down', or 'eel waters'

Patchewollock

The name originated from two Aboriginal words: putje, 'plenty', and wallah, 'porcupine grass'.

Perenjori

it is believed the name may be derived from the 'Peranj-jiddee bush'.

Tanilba

Said to mean "place of white flowers" in a local Indigenous language, presumably a reference to the flannel flowers in the area.[

Tanunda

The town derives its name from an Aboriginal word meaning 'water hole'.

Thirroul

The name is supposedly Aboriginal for 'Valley of Cabbage Tree Palms'.

Tolga

Means 'red mud'. The town was originally called Martintown, and grew out of a Cobb and Co staging post at Rocky Creek.

Toogoolawah

Derived from the Aboriginal words "dhoo" (a generic term for tree) and "goo/lawa", meaning "crescent shaped" or "bent like a crescent moon".

Toongabbie

Derived from an Aboriginal word, reported as meaning 'place by the water' or 'the meeting of the waters'.

Towradgi

Towradgi is a corruption of the aboriginal word Kow-radgi meaning 'guardian of the sacred stones'.

Tuggeranong

The name is derived from an Aboriginal - Ngunnawal - expression meaning "cold plains".

Turramurra

An Aboriginal word meaning 'high hill' or 'big hill' - The aboriginal reference of high hill covered the range from Pymble to Turramurra.

Uralla

From the language of the local Aniwan tribe. Uralla described a 'meeting place', or more especially 'a ceremonial meeting place and look-out on a hill".

Uraidla

The name may derive from the Kaurna words yurre 'ear' and the suffix denotaing 'location', -illa,

Wagaman

Named after the Wagiman Aboriginal tribe from present-day Pine Creek, in the Katherine Region of the Northern Territory.

Warragul

The town is named after an Aboriginal word meaning 'wild dog'.

Warrawong

Two meanings are given for this aboriginal word - "a whiting' and the 'side of a hill'.

Wee Waa

This Aboriginal name means 'Fire for Roasting' from the language of the Kamilaroi people.

Werribee

Is an aboriginal name meaning "backbone" or "spine".

Wilcannia

Is said to be derived from an Aboriginal term for either 'gap in the bank where floodwaters escape' or 'wild dog'.

Windang

An aboriginal word meaning 'scene of a fight'.

Wollongong

Believed to mean 'seas of the South' in the local Aboriginal language, referring to NSW's Southern Coast.

Woolgoolga

It is believed that the name of the town derives from the word Weelgoolga, which was used by the local Aborigines to describe the area, and the 'lilly-pilly trees that grew there.'

Woollahra

An Aboriginal word meaning 'camp' or 'meeting ground' or 'a sitting down place'.

Woolloomooloo

Could be derived from either Wallamullah, meaning 'place of plenty' or Wallabahmullah, meaning 'a young black kangaroo'.

Wombarra

Is an Aboriginal term meaning 'Black Duck'.

Woonona

Derived from an Aboriginal - Tharawal people - word meaning 'Place of young wallabies'.

Wonthaggi

From the Woiwurrung - Eastern Kulin which means 'to drag, carry or pull with the wind'.

Woy Woy

Taken from the local Darkinjung Aboriginal people, means 'big lagoon' or 'much water'.

Wujal Wujal

Set around the highly sacred waterfalls of Wujal Wujal the name means 'many falls' in the local language.

Wyong

An indigenous word meaning either 'an edible yam' or 'place of running water'.

Yalgoo

Derived from the word Yalguru and.said to mean '"blood' or 'place of blood',

Yamba

An Aboriginal word yumbah meaning a 'rough edible shellfish the size of a man's hand that clings to rocks and is similar to an oyster'.